Does life get any better? You spent all day today shopping all over Italy…anywhere you wanted to go! You were supposed to take your best friend in Italy along, but for some reason she never showed up. However, you can’t be late! You’ll just pick her up an Italian couture blouse and she will never mention it again! Well, at least you thought so! You must have lost cell phone coverage at some point today…you have seven voicemails from your Italian friend! She says she has looked all over Italy for you and asks in Italian why you didn’t wait for her! You explain very quickly in Italian, “while you were looking for her, you saw a sale on an Italian sweater she has wanted.” So as any friend would, you stopped and bought it. Then, you explain in Italian, “while you were searching the streets for her, you found an exquisite pair of Italian earrings.” So, you bought those for her as well. Twenty minutes later, “while your extravagant web of lies has cost you almost all the expensive Italian trinkets you found shopping without your friend today, you saved a priceless friendship.” Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson will teach you how to combine the Italian passato prossimo and imperfetto tenses to convey past occurrences in formal narrations. Then we will discuss someone whom some believe to be the last great emperor of the Roman Empire-Marcus Aurelius. Visit us at ItalianPod101 where you will find other great Italian lessons and learning materials! Leave us a comment while you are there!
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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Every day when you were a young child in Italy, your mom would come home from work and inevitably find you plopped down in front of the television playing a video game. She’d always ask you in Italian, “Have you done your homework yet?” And your answer was always the same in Italian: “I’ve done part of it, but I’m taking a little break. You know, I can’t sit in school for eight hours a day and do homework the whole afternoon.” Whether or not it was the truth, it was my standard Italian response. Of course, my mother saw through that, so she’d tell me in Italian, “Okay, you can take a break, but only for a few more minutes. And remember, if your grades slip, I’m taking the video games away for good!”
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson will show you the distinction between how we use the passato prossimo tense in written and spoken Italian. We’ll also teach you the conjugation of several verbs in the passato prossimo tense, and then we’ll close out the lesson with more information about the rich cultural and historical traditions of the Italian city of Milan. Visit us at ItalianPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!
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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! One thing you have been anxious to try since you arrived in Italy is a homemade Italian pizza! Your Italian roommate John has so graciously offered to make one tonight. Now the only thing standing between you and your first authentic Italian pizza is groceries! John writes you a grocery list in Italian complete with everything he needs to make you that mouth-watering Italian pie! Minutes later, you rush around the Italian shop down the street gathering items for your dinner. What’s this focacce? You ask the Italian woman at the counter but she can only offer Italian calzoni. After thirty minutes of desperate searching, you return home and sadly tell John in Italian, “All I have found is calzoni!”
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson continues our discussion of the passato prossimo tense from the last lesson. We will also learn the rules for choosing the correct Italian auxiliary verbs in compound tenses. Finally, we’ll learn about Vinitaly, the Italian wine trade fair. Visit us at ItalianPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!
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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! If you love spending time outdoors, Italy is the place for you. From their outdoor concerts to the Italian fiere (”trade fairs”), almost everyone can find something they enjoy while outdoors in Italy. However, if you really love to find great deals when you are shopping, you won’t want to miss the Italian fiere! I went to the Fiera di Sant’Orso in Aosta with some friends last weekend. I found some amazing deals on things I have been looking all over Italy for! Now…how do I say, “I was very lucky” in Italian?
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson will look at the passato prossimo tense of the irregular Italian verbs essere (”to be”) and avere (”to have”). You will also learn how to say “I was lucky” in Italian. Finally, you’ll learn all about the history of the two types of Italian fiere. Visit us at ItalianPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!
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Your teenage daughter enjoyed her first week of her new Italian school. However, this week is starting out much differently! She bursts through the front door after school with tears pouring down her face! She tells you that she got into trouble today at school for missing school last week! She said the Italian teacher wanted to know why she missed school last week. Your daughter tried to explain to her teacher in Italian that she was there every day last week, but the Italian woman insisted that she wasn’t and then grew angry because your daughter argued with her. You are very confused and your daughter is very upset. You will get to the bottom of this first thing tomorrow morning!
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! In this Italian lesson, you will learn how to discuss finished actions and events using the passato prossimo (present perfect) tense of Italian verbs. We will discuss how to form both the regular and irregular forms of these Italian verbs. Finally, we will discuss how Italians spend their weekends…including some interesting Italian school hours. Don’t forget to visit ItalianPod101 to pick up other great Italian learning materials. Leave us a comment while you are there!
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